Displaced People: NAFTA’s Most Important Product
Since the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1993, the U.S. Congress has debated and passed ...
Mexican Pipeline: The Future of Oil Under Vicente Fox
In 1992, President Carlos Salinas, in the midst of his drive to privatize the Mexican economy, oversaw the division of ...
Oil at the Grassroots: Report from Tabasco
In rural Tabasco, a swampy state on Mexico's Gulf Coast, a middle-aged farmer named Don Ramón* has spent the past ...
What Lies Beneath: Oil, Subsoil and the Chiapas Conflict
Several decades ago in the Mexican state of Chiapas and in neighboring Guatemala, geologists discovered deeply buried rock strata of ...
Mexican Oil
The Mexican oil bonanza began in 1976 when the new President, Jose L6pez Portillo, went exploring with nothing more than ...